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+{{cquote|From an early age, I've had a desire to learn about everything. And, when I say "everything," I mean it. My curiosity included the most obscure ("Who's pictured on the highest dollar denomination?"), the bizarre ("What do humming bird's eggs taste?") and the prescient ("How much oil is there on the planet?"). Naturally, this lead me to read a rather voraciously and, especially, to have a penchant for encyclopedias.
+I would quickly exhaust both bound volumes and CD-ROM encyclopedias quite quickly. Want I needed was a resource that was virtually inexhaustible. The internet was certainly was necessary, but where to find it all? A search engine listed a number of results, hundreds, thousands. I needed a single place that housed all the knowledge I desired, but where would I find it?
+Then, around about 2005, I found what I had been searching for -- Wikipedia. I don't remember exactly how I found it. I forget what I was searching for, maybe professional wrestling, maybe a Saturday morning cartoon from the nineties, but I had found it. It has been a beautiful journey ever since.  }}
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 {{cquote|I recall the days of my youth when my very concerned parents, who had my best educational interests in mind, invited the World Book Encyclopedia salesman to our home. Of course they purchased a set for my sister and me, paid for on time payments, and we lived our life from then on with the certain knowledge that even if we did not know something, we could find the facts about anything in our set of World Books.